F. PETER BOER is President and CEO of Tiger Scientific, Inc., a firm specializing in science and technology consulting and investments. He is the author of The Valuation of Technology (Wiley), and is an Adjunct Professor of Business and Engineering at Yale University, where he teaches valuation and other subjects. Dr. Boer speaks and lectures frequently for the Industrial Research Institute and is actively engaged with companies that are using options-based methods to evaluate their R&D portfolios.